Summary
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., despite his history of heroin addiction, supports ending a $56 million federal Narcan distribution program that helped drive a nearly 24% drop in U.S. overdose deaths in 2024.
The program, administered by SAMHSA, trained over 66,000 people and distributed 282,500 kits.
Critics warn that cutting Narcan funding could reverse life-saving progress, especially as fentanyl-related overdoses persist.
Kennedy argues the crisis requires deeper societal change beyond “nuts and bolts” solutions, while public health advocates condemn the move as dangerously premature.
deeper societal change
Like UBI? Or a reduction in work hours? Or education programs? This jerk won’t do any of that.
He somewhat backed UBI when running for president. That idea is probably gone now under Trump but he wasn’t against it not to long ago.
That sounds like a lot of work when you have the old reliable conservative tactic of pretending the problem doesn’t exist while blaming the ill effects of the not-problem on the personal responsibility of the victims. And their mental health. And other dog whistles that they are lesser subhumans who don’t deserve help.
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End yourself RFKJ.
Just dropping this here on the off chance you dont have this saved to your phone or something yet. For me it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Drug addict says, “fuck you, I got mine”
Imagine being rich and getting addicted to heroin. Literal everything has been designed to benefit you - unlike your sister you weren’t born with the wrong chromosomes so any obnoxious behavior was written off. Never worrying about where your next meal would come from, how you’re going to get a job, dealing with mental illness you can’t afford to get treatment for…
How much do you have to suck to fail so hard when everything has been lined up for you since birth?
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Sure - addiction can fuck anyone.
Some of us can afford rehab though. And it’s especially fucked when someone can afford rehab, benefits from it, and then turns around to deny others help.
If RFK Jr left his addiction with a sense of empathy for the people who don’t have family members who will quietly cover up when one of your relatives kills someone while driving drunk, that would be a different story.
I am not empathic to rich addicts. The fact that my stepdad was able to get weekend jail on his 5th DUI and used me and my siblings to start his car - while a schizophrenic who self medicates with opioids in my state will be killed in jail - nah, fuck them with a rusty pole and no tetanus shot.
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It’s not mental health persay, wellness sure but he’s not insane he’s just historically a lonely loser that had to buy friendship.
This fuckin weirdo used to hang out at the dump and eat trash with his birds of prey… Freggins this freggins that but they don’t do that shit at the dump.
He is very much mentally unwell. Hanging at the dump eating animals his birds killed on acid. He gave his 14 year old cousin acid.
He killed people in Samoa, including 40 children, with his vaccine denial. He thinks he knows more than all the doctors in the world who disagree with him. He is mentally ill. Narcissist at a minimum.
So what? The giving it to a child isn’t great but doing acid is fine it’s one of the safest drugs on earth.
Yeah that’s being a self important piece of shit, neither of those things equal mental health issues. Not every asshole has an excuse and people need to stop defaulting towards mental health because it’s extremely offensive to people with actual mental health issues.
he drove his brother to heroin addiction and suicide by 28yo. and his 1st wife was driven to suicide and drinking, because he was forcing her to be a “stay at home wife” where her work is needs hands on, basically giving it up.
You should work for the LA Times.
You know how to write a headline.But this is the Latin Times
LA Tin Times
but I think using the middle name is a little too formal
You mean the LA Tintimes?
Nah, it’s the workout rag called Lat in Times.
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
Kennedy argues the crisis requires deeper societal change beyond “nuts and bolts” solutions, while public health advocates condemn the move as dangerously premature.
Putting aside that “nuts and bolts” isn’t even the right metaphor here, why wouldn’t you save lives right now at the same time you, you know, fix society? This guy stops every few steps to chew his gum?
That’s just it, they don’t care about saving lives. I wonder what the demographics are with people that need this help the most. If it’s not majority white people, this is a great shot at killing off minorties without consequences.
It’s the same kind of rhetoric they use against gun control. It’s always a mental health problem, but they won’t address that either because they prefer mentally ill people to suffer.
I was like. The brain worms must have eaten that portion of his brain because he essentially said, we need more than the things that are holding everything together…
his gouald must be still a larval form.
Pro-Life Party in action.
“Much has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada,” Trump said. “But we have very large deficits with both of them. But even more importantly, they have allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people, destroying families. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”
My, how quickly they abandoned the ‘we must protect our people’ reasoning used to justify tariffs.
[RFK voice] I killed my brother by force hard drugs on him that he’d get addicted to and ultimately overdose. All I’m doing now is killing the American people that are addicted to drugs. What’s not to understand about that?
“This administration is so unpredictable!”
Is it though? It seems pretty simple:
Does it help people and not directly benefit the ultra wealthy? Kill it.
Does it hurt people we don’t like or boost the oppressive power of the state? Boost it!
That seems to be the Trump administration in a nutshell.
“This administration is so unpredictable!”
proceeds to act project 2025 as it was written
Pikachu face
I didn’t read the whole thing, is he gonna stick with these tariffs or not?
What was his uncle and father think of the man he has grown to become? What a evil horrible nan.
I don’t know about his uncle, but his father was a horrible, disgusting man. Likely the reason Trump, self admittedly, has not emotionally matured beyond a first grade level.
Not talking about Trump. Talking about RJK Jr.
Yes, they’re way too reliably wrong for it to be accidental.
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This is the same man who once sawed the head off of a whale, strapped it to his roof, then forced his children to endure being rained upon by whale juice.
Just internalize that. This man is in charge of health
The only thing I can agree with him on is that people are eating too much unhealthy shit, and the food industry needs to do better.
Literally everything else out of his mouth is utter lunacy.
I’m sorry, what?
EDIT oh. But also still what?? Why???
Thought to myself, that can’t possibly be true, but then:
Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6 years old, her dad got word that a dead whale had washed ashore. He got a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head and strapped it to the roof of their minivan for a five-hour drive home.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kennedy-whale-investigation-09c494d8164c6f9bde9ece39637ea4d3
At least it’s not the same guy who dumped a dead bear in Central Park oh wait it totally is!
He just summarily wiped out a large portion of the MAGA voting base in the southeast.
Seriously though…
RFK, like the rest of the oligarchs, cannot appreciate how society allowed him to live his best life.
Past? Have you drug tested him? Does he seem altogether put together?
Drugs? Did someone mention drugs? The white house is teeming with drugs and drug users. RFK Jr is sure to get a little drug splash accidentally, of course. Look, he hates McDonalds but there we was chowing down with Krasnov.
In conjunction with this, we are also getting rid of epi-pens in EMS vehicles, planes, and hospitals because this goes beyond a having allergies problem.
I’m curios, does anyone know an ex heroin junky that went straight edge and didn’t substitute heroin with another addiction? Because I don’t
Testosterone and steroids, at a minimum. Probably body dysmorphia brought on by destruction of his brain from decades of hard drug abuse plus a fucking brain worm
That’s the minimum. He probably got in with Elon’s hookup.
